Motivational Quotes

Friends and friendship

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

- La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Friends and friendship Motivational Quotes

Best Quotes about Friends and friendship

It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world.

Buscaglia, Leo

But just as delicate fare does not stop you from craving for saveloys, so tried and exquisite friendship does not take away your taste for something new and dubious.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

May I always be worth of my friends.

Friendship is a very simple word, very commonly used. The word friend is almost used on a daily basis. Yet, the depth and meaning of friendship certainly go beyond the simple and the common. Throughout history friendship has been a favorite theme for many writers. The following passages highlight what others have said about friendship in the past.

Riera, Dorothy

Old friends are the great blessings of one's later years. Half a word conveys one's meaning. They have a memory of the same events, have the same mode of thinking. I have young relations that may grow upon me, for my nature is affectionate, but can they grow [To Be] old friends?

Walpole, Horace

With true friends... even water drunk together is sweet enough.

Proverb, Chinese

A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market.

O'Malley, Austin

If a man urge me to tell wherefore I loved him, I feel it cannot be expressed but by answering: Because it was he, because it was myself.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Woolf, Virginia

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Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

Wilson, Woodrow T.

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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.

Butler, Samuel

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Precious gifts of friendship... knowing the heart of another, sharing one's heart with another.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Boswell, James

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The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help in need.

Epicurus

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You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent job.

Peter, Laurence J.

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All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.

Mccormack, Mark

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To the query, What is a friend? his reply was A single soul dwelling in two bodies.

Aristotle

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Never exaggerate your faults, your friends will attend to that.

Edwards, Robert C.

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We will win the world when we realize that fellowship, not evangelism, must be our primary emphasis. When we demonstrate the Big Miracle of Love, it won't be necessary for us to go out -- they will come in.

Moody, Jess

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A friend hears the song in my heart and sings it to me when my memory fails.

Digest, Readers

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An open foe may prove a curse, but a pretended friend is worse.

Gay, John

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Every deed and every relationship is surrounded by an atmosphere of silence. Friendship needs no words -- it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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A friend is a present you give to yourself.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.

Walton, Izaak

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Friendship is the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person having neither to weigh thoughts or measure words, but pouring all right out just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful friendly hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping and, with a breath of comfort, blow the rest away.

Craik, Dinah Mulock

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The time to make friends is before you need them.

Proverb

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Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by the roadside, expecting them to keep by force of inertia.

James, William

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The endearing elegance of female friendship.

Johnson, Samuel

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The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ.

Chambers, Oswald

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If you have no enemies you are apt to be in the same predicament in regard to friends.

Hubbard, Elbert

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An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

Proverb, Spanish

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A friend is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.

Crane, Frank

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A friend loveth at all times. [Proverbs 17:17]

Bible

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Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

Addison, Joseph

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There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

Penn, William

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The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

Fuller, Thomas

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Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

Alcott, Amos Bronson

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Thank You Friend I never came to you, my friend, and went away without some new enrichment of the heart; More faith and less of doubt, more courage in the days ahead. And often in great need coming to you, I went away comforted indeed. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.

Crowell, Grace Noll

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Your friends will know you better in the first minute they meet you than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years.

Bach, Richard

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Friendship, of itself a holy tie, is made more sacred by adversity.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

Ustinov, Peter

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It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.

Belloc, Hilaire

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For when two beings who are not friends are near each other there is no meeting, and when friends are far apart there is no separation.

Weil, Simone

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And what a delight it is to make friends with someone you have despised.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle